Hello We are planning to convert our mailhub ( freebsd 7.4 ) from mbox format to maildir format. I've read the documentation and performed some tests on another machine it is a bit long ... I would like some feedback from guys who did this operation and need some advice on what to convert first ? - first convert INBOX then convert IMAP folders ? - first convert IMAP folders then convert INBOX ? the machine use real users thru openldap ( pam_ldap + nss_ldap ) another problem is disk space. The users's email data takes about 2 Terabytes of data and I cannot duplicate as I only have 3 Tb on the raid array of the server. My idea is to use one of our NFS netapp filer during the convertion to throw the result of the convertion on an NFS mounted directory. Anyone did this before ? If yes I would be greatly interrested by their experience Thank you
On 30.1.2012, at 10.37, Frank Bonnet wrote:> We are planning to convert our mailhub ( freebsd 7.4 ) from mbox > format to maildir format.I'd do it one user at a time with dsync, but unfortunately:> the machine use real users thru openldap ( pam_ldap + nss_ldap )nss_ldap can't store the mail_location override field needed to distinguish mbox user from maildir user. Maybe you could temporarily switch to some other userdb, which would allow extra fields. Also this requires that you deliver mails using dovecot-lda/lmtp.> another problem is disk space. The users's email data takes about > 2 Terabytes of data and I cannot duplicate as I only have 3 Tb on > the raid array of the server.With one-user-at-a-time conversion this wouldn't be an issue.